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Volume 28, Number 4
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Literature Cited
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A NEW FOODPLANT RECORD FOR SATYRIUM KINGI (LYCAENIDAE)
Harris (1972, Butterflies of Georgia, Univ. Oklahoma Press) reports that John C. Symmes found and reared Satyrium kingi (Klots & Clench) on Flame Azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum) in the Atlanta, Georgia area; but that H. L. King collected kingi at the type locality (Savannah, Georgia), where he saw females ovipositing on a small plant not related to azalea. Moreover, King noted that he found no native azalea plants in the area around where he collected his specimens. These facts, of course, suggest that kingi has more than one foodplant. More recently Gatrelle (1974, J. Lepid. Soc. 28: 33-37) has raised the question of the relationship between possible subspecifically distinct populations of kingi and differences in the choice of foodplant in these different populations. More specifically, the inference might be made that the northern (inland or upland) population not only represents a subspecies distinct from the lowland (or coastal) population, but that the northern population may feed on a different foodplant from the lowland population.
I wish to report a second foodplant for the northern population of kingi, horse sugar tree, Symplocos tinctoria (L.). On 10 May 1966, on a ridge near the Chattahoochee River just north of Atlanta, Georgia, I found three larvae that were unfamiliar to me on a single bushy plant. The three larvae, along with an ample supply of the foodplant, were collected; and the larvae were reared at my home in Atlanta. On 17 May 1966 the first larva pupated and the other two pupated several days later. The first adult emerged on 28 May 1966 and the other two emerged several days later. Upon identifying the specimens as Satyrium kingi, I pressed a branch of the foodplant (which was still quite fresh even 18 days after it had been collected). The foodplant was later identified as horse sugar tree by Dr. Robert Godfrey, Department of Botany, Florida State University. The larvae I reared fit the general description given by Harris (loc. cit.), and were similar in appearance to a single larva of Satyrium liparops (Boisduval & Le Conte) which I collected almost a year later (2 April 1967) on wild cherry (Frunus sp.) less than 300 meters from the spot where the kingi larvae were found. The liparops larva pupated on 6 April 1967 and the adult emerged on 16 April 1967.
Single adult specimens of kingi were collected in the same general area of upland hardwoods on 3 June 1966 and 9 June 1967. Other members of the family Lycaenidae that I collected at the same location in 1966 and 1967 included Chrysophanus titus mopsus (Hubner) on 9 June 1967; Satyrium edwardsii (Grote & Robinson) on 9 June 1967; Strymon melinus (Hubner) on 9 June 1967; Satyrium calanus falacer (Godart) on 3 June 1966; Calycopis cecrops (Fabricius) on 17 April 1967; Atlides halesus (Cramer) on 13 March 1967; and Callophrys augustinus croesides (Scudder) on 13 March 1967.
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